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Barry and Marci Brandt Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Barry and Marci Brandt Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$145k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Religion$175kEducation$98kRecreation & Sports$86kHuman Services$83kCommunity Improvement$25kHealth$23kPhilanthropy$10kEnvironment$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FUND OF JO DAVIESS CTY$25,000
CAMP WOJTYLA$25,000
THE CATHEDRAL OF ST BERNARD$10,000
BRECK OUTDOOR ED CENTER$10,000
PATRIS CORDE HERMITAGE$10,000
ST JOHNS THE EVANEGELIST - NAPLES$7,500
DIOCESE OF MADISON$7,500
ST MARY CATHOLIC CHARTIES$7,500
CAMP GRAY$5,000
WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS$5,000
CHRISTMAS COMMANDOS$5,000
DIOCESE OF VENICE$5,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$5,000
HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION$5,000
NMDP FOUNDATION (NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM)$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHRISTMAS COMMANDOS: $5k → 12%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $5k → 8%ECHO: $3k → 10%GIFTS MEN SHELTER: $3k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $30k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NY
OH
CO
VA
AZ
TN
NC
HI
AL
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 19% of Barry and Marci Brandt Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Barry and Marci Brandt Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.9% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$328k · 14 repeat orgs$185k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
20

Total granted

$328k
$141k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+9%

Still filing today

36%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UF
    UW-WHITEWATER FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $61k · revenue +7%
  • CW
    Camp Wojtyla Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +28%
  • SH
    SUPERIOR HIKING TRAIL ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -29%
  • FF
    Forward Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -12%
  • FRANCISCAN PEACEMAKERS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +19%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Clement Manor Inc

Clement manor is a healthcare organization sponsored by the school sisters of st. francis that is committed to providing a continuum of care and fostering the highest potential for well being of each individual on our campuses and in our…

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2
Wisconsin Hero Outdoors Inc

Wisconsin hero outdoors connects veterans, first responders and their families to integrated "nature based outdoor therapies". 2024 who expanded its program offerings to include beekeeping and apiary management.

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3
Catholic Cemetery Association of Racine Inc

The management and general maintenance of a cemetery or cemeteries in or near the city of racine, wisconsin, for the use and benefit of such members of the roman catholic congregations of said city and county of racine as may acquire…

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4
Calvary Hospital Inc

The mission of calvary hospital is to care for the medical, emotional and spiritual needs of our adult patients with advanced cancer and other life-limiting illnesses. it is the only fully accredited acute care hospital in the u.s. devoted…

Health
5
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc

St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…

Health
6
Wisconsin Waterfowl Association Inc

The purpose of the association shall be to restore and conserve wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources; to educate state waterfowlers during their progression from natural resource consumer to steward; and to promote governmental…

Environment
7
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

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8
Wilderness Health Inc

Our mission is to provide better healthcare for the rural communities in northeastern minnesota and northwestern wisconsin. through empowerment and collaboration with independent health providers, wilderness health is able to help meet the…

Health
9
Prohealth Medical Group Inc

Continously improving the health of our community.

Health
10
St Camillus Communities Inc

By providing services to the poor, the sick and the elderly with a sense of compassion and love, st. camillus offers hope and meaning to those who are suffering, comfort and security to those who are aging, and serenity to those who are…

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11
Trinity Hospital Twin City

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

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12
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Inc Diocese of Madison; the most unlike its peers is The James Beard Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
12/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FUND OF JO DAVIESS CTY: $75,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FUND OF JO DAVIESS CTYBRECK OUTDOOR ED CENTER: $20,000 · OtherBRECK OUTDOOR ED CENTERFRANCISCAN PEACEMAKERS INC: $20,000 · OtherFRANCISCAN PEACEMAKERS INCTHISTLE FARMS INC: $20,000 · OtherTHISTLE FARMS INCDIOCESE OF MADISON: $20,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF MADISONST MARY CATHOLIC CHARTIES: $15,500 · OtherST MARY CATHOLIC CHARTIESST JOHNS THE EVANEGELIST- NAPLES: $15,000 · OtherST JOHNS THE EVANEGELIST- NAPLESDIOCESE OF VENICE: $11,000 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAUL: $10,000 · OtherTHE CATHEDRAL OF ST BERNARD: $10,000 · Other+19 more: $52,427 · Other+19 moreUW-WHITEWATER FOUNDATION INC: $61,000 · EducationUW-WHITEWATER F…SAINT AMBROSE ACADEMY INC: $10,000 · EducationSAINT AMBROSE A…Camp Wojtyla Inc: $55,000 · ReligionCamp Wojtyla I…PATRIS CORDE HERMITAGE: $10,000 · ReligionPATRIS CORDE H…CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON: $30,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC C…HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETW…CHRISTMAS COMMANDOS: $5,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTMAS …WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $5,000 · Human ServicesWARRIOR EX…GOD IS FAITHFUL TEMPORARY SHELTER INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesEVERYONE COOPERATING TO HELP OTHERS INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesCAMP GRAY INC: $30,933 · Recreation & SportsSUPERIOR HIKING TRAIL ASSOCIATION: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsForward Foundation Inc: $25,000 · Community ImprovementHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$268,927Education$71,000Religion$65,000Human Services$50,000Recreation & Sports$33,433Community Improvement$25,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUW-WHITEWATER FOUNDATION INC: $61,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCamp Wojtyla Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCAMP GRAY INC: $30,933 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetForward Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetFRANCISCAN PEACEMAKERS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT AMBROSE ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTMAS COMMANDOS: $5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetNATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOD IS FAITHFUL TEMPORARY SHELTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEVERYONE COOPERATING TO HELP OTHERS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT 1649 INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSUPERIOR HIKING TRAIL ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIFELINE COALITION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAPLES ART ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Alliant Energy Founda…Baird Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …American Endowment Fo…Green Bay Packers Fou…William J Cronin Foun…Kennedy Family Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Blackbaud Giving …Ge Aerospace Foundati…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…
Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · William J Cronin Foundation · Kennedy Family Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Barry and Marci Brandt Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barry and Marci Brandt Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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